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Joseph has been a practicing clinical perfusionist for 40 years. Currently, Joseph is the CEO of Houston Extracorporeal Technologies and is the program director of The New Orleans Conference and MediWeb which includes PerfWeb and NurseWeb.

Dr. Hany Samir is the founder and CEO of HS Consulting for Telehealth, Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology and Critical Care with Weill Cornell Medical College at the DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center at Houston Methodist Hospital. He is an established and highly skilled physician with over 33 years of experience in Critical/Intensive Care, Cardiovascular Medicine, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, and Peri-operative Surgery including transplant. He is well regarded in the Houston, TX community, earning numerous accolades for his commitment to quality and patient centered care. Dr. Samir is licensed in 5 states and is double board certified in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology. He is an esteemed fellow of the Cardiac Renal Society and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is also active in the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, Texas Society of Anesthesiology, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. Dr. Samir has published in the areas of mechanical circulatory support in severe shock patients, ECMO, severe sepsis, peri-operative LVAD management as destination therapy and bridge to transplant, post-operative bleeding management, acute hypertensive management in post-operative aortic arch repair, and rapid reversal of anticoagulation in post-surgical complications. Dr. Samir is an expert in critical care as well as peri-operative management and has been one of the first in the country to adopt and apply his expertise into telemedicine. He has created a national reputation for quality and is highly respected as an expert consultant regarding how to implement critical care with telehealth technology. This new and growing technology can be implemented into health care systems to provide and improve quality of care without compromising outcomes. The future of medicine will be in digital platforms with medical innovations and Dr. Samir has become an expert on how to incorporate these new technologies into medical facilities who want to transform their types of services to align with the future of health care. 

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Soma S. Jyothula earned his medical degree at All India Institute of Medical Sciences and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Dr Jyothula is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine and has been practicing medicine since 2006.  His clinical interests include lung transplantation, interstitial lung disease, COPD, pulmonary hypertension and interventional pulmonology.

Dr. Jyothula’s practice philosophy is to provide the highest quality, comprehensive and innovative care to patients with chronic lung disease.  He believes in a personalized approach to managing each patient’s medical needs.

Dr. Jyothula is the medical director of the Lung Transplant Center at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and part of clinical faculty as an associate professor at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. He is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, American Society of Transplantation and International Society of Heart & Lung Transplantation.

A resident of Houston’s Museum District, Dr. Jyothula has two children. In his spare time, he enjoys clay shooting, running and has aspirations to be a writer.

Serina Patrick, RN, BSN, CCTC, works as a Lung Transplant Coordinator at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, where she helps to evaluate patients for transplant, is involved in their transplant care before their surgery, and long-term follow up. In her role, she is also responsible for handling the flow of the transplant medical review board and ensuring that all aspects of patient information is available for the physician in order to make a decision. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Prairie View A&M University and is currently working on her Master of Science degree in Nursing Education with Aspen University. She has ten years of nursing experience with a background in critical care, employed in various Neuro, Medical, and Trauma Intensive Care Units during her career. Serina has been working with patients who require lung transplants for the past five years and is a member of the International Transplant Nurse Society. She is a Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator and has been a mentor and preceptor to upcoming and fellow nurses. Often recognized by her past patients for her dedication to what she does, Serina aims to tie her nursing experience with her passion for patient safety and nursing education. She is originally from DuPont, Washington, but has decided to make Houston her home due to her aspirations to continue to work in the world-renowned Texas Medical Center.